While the tech media are all busy praising Windows 7, the operating system still obviously does have issues, it being Windows and all. Because we are talking about Windows, and not, say Ubuntu or Mac OS X, it comes with one big downside that will mostly hit new users of Windows 7 (meaning, everyone): the incredibly complicated upgrade paths.

On-topic, at least Windows 7's pricing is lower than Vista's was. It's still not as low as the alternatives, but considering the relatively low volume of off-the-shelf purchases and taking consumer demand for Windows vs the alternatives into consideration, it's not all that big an issue.